UPDATE Supercloud SET status = 'open alpha' WHERE product = 'D1';

In May 2022, Cloudflare announced its quest to simplify databases by building them, maintaining them, and integrating them. The goal is to empower users with the tools to run a powerful, scalable database without any hassle. To achieve this, they first aimed at reimagining the database development experience for every type of user. Over the past couple of months, they have been working on creating just that while learning important lessons along the way. They introduced an "open alpha" for their D1 product during Developer Week to gather feedback from users before making it production-ready. The open alpha includes features such as using the D1 dashboard, Wrangler CLI, accessing D1 from within a Worker or Pages Function, and community-built tooling like d1-orm, workers-qb, d1-console, and Kysely adapter for D1. Some limitations still exist in testing, such as database location, concurrency limitations, and availability limitations. They request feedback from users to improve the product for their production apps.